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Whenever it appears or is represented to the Supe- rintendent of a prison that any adolescent offender confined in the prison sho uld, for the reasons mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 5, be detained, he 5hall send a report to ' his effect to, and c:ause the adolescent offender to be produced before the Sessions Judge of the sessions division.in which the prison is situated and if the Sessions Judge after making~such inquiry as may bf" prescribed and such further inquiry as he may con- sider necessary, is satisfied that the adolescent offender should, for the reasons mentioned in the said sub-sec- tion be detained, he may order the adolescent offender to be removed ·fro m the prison and detained ior a period equal to the unexpired term of the imprison. ment to which he was sentenced or equal to the un- expired portion of the period for which he was re- quired to give security, as the case may be: Provided that in no case shall he be detained for more than five years.